Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:54:47 -0600 From: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hotmail Message-ID: <19990901215447.C4481@home.griz.net> In-Reply-To: <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com> References: <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home> <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com>
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On Tuesday August 31, 1999, David Greenman <dg@root.com> had this to say about "Re: hotmail": > >>I heard from news that hotmail was broken and the service was forced to > >>stop about two hours. As i know hotmail is operated by freebsd. Is it > >>about the security of freebsd? > > > >Hotmail used to run FreeBSD, but I believe Microsoft has replaced everything > >with WinNT. > > > > FreeBSD continues to be in use on about 2000 server machines at Hotmail. > > -DG I would think a simple nmap probe would flush out the FreeBSD servers from the NT servers...but the aforementioned bug was not an OS problem in any case 8-) -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. -- Heine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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